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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mayhew describe the Punch and Judy show?
(a) As a serious morals tale.
(b) He does not give it a description.
(c) As a sentimental, comic, tragic two-act play.
(d) As a farcical tragedy.

2. What areas have the most prostitution?
(a) In the wealthier sections where men could afford to pay.
(b) In the industrial sections.
(c) Away from the police stations.
(d) Those frequented by sailors.

3. What did Mayhew see as a moral defect?
(a) Not working if one is able to do so.
(b) Stealing from those less fortunate.
(c) Not working up to one's full potential.
(d) Working on Sundays.

4. In what field did many performers get their start?
(a) Singing.
(b) Tap dancing.
(c) Collecting tips for experienced performers.
(d) Mime.

5. Why did the clown stay a clown if he did not like doing so?
(a) He couldn't get other work.
(b) He was involuntarily apprenticed to a clown and he could not break the contract.
(c) His father wanted him to do it.
(d) It was better pay.

6. When did the one homeless shelter open?
(a) Every night of the year.
(b) During the summer months only.
(c) When temperatures dropped below freezing.
(d) From 7 to 8 pm nightly during the winter.

7. In whom does Mayhew say this moral defect is present?
(a) Mentally slow individuals.
(b) He does not specify.
(c) Vagrants, vagabonds and criminals.
(d) Those not raised in a good home.

8. Where was the convicted thief who was interviewed born?
(a) A gypsy camp.
(b) Paris.
(c) Sussex.
(d) Belgium.

9. What did 307 poor people do for the first time?
(a) Talked to a Priest.
(b) Found a job.
(c) Attended church.
(d) Learned to read.

10. What does the author say beggars often spent considerable amounts of money buying?
(a) Women.
(b) Costumes.
(c) Lamb.
(d) Wine.

11. What were fences in the section by John Binny?
(a) The way the rich did not have to think about the poor.
(b) How the government separated the criminal sections of town from other areas.
(c) Receivers of stolen goods.
(d) A way to keep your business from your neighbor's eyes.

12. How many civil servants does he cite?
(a) 42,000
(b) 500,000.
(c) 20,000
(d) 200,000.

13. How many men were employed in Great Britain at the time of the writing of this book?
(a) About 500,000.
(b) About 8 million.
(c) About 1.2 million.
(d) About 5.25 million.

14. How did she pay for her desires?
(a) Prostitution.
(b) Running a brothel on the side.
(c) Working hard and not turning to the streets.
(d) Sending her younger sister to the steets.

15. What does Mayhew say is difficult or impossible?
(a) To catalogue all the various ways to earn a living.
(b) To write a book that is fair to those who are morally defective.
(c) To catalogue all the various ways to turn criminal.
(d) To write a book that fails to cover the morally deficient.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Irish families described by Mayhew?

2. What does Mayhew say about the photographer's business?

3. Who is one casual warder profiled?

4. What seemed to be part of the motivation for a street person to perform?

5. How many prostitutes did the police estimate work in London?

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